Veeam has announced Veeam Sharepoint Explorer feature to be present in the upcoming version 7 of Veeam Backup & Replication. Cool Feature for Sharepoint admins, which will be present in the upcoming V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication. The Sharepoint Explorer brings the possibility to navigate through Sharepoint DB and restore directly documents from there, or send those to your coworkers.
In the video below you’ll see how it works:
Connect to a desired Sharepoint DB in one of your backup files
Navigate to the desired tree... [Lire la suite]

Windows 7 Explorer for Windows 8 is an excellent free tool which enables you to switch the Windows 8 start menu back to the Windows 7 one very clean way. Few months back you could read about classic menu for Widnows 8, which is a freeware tool too, but it adds it’s own menu at the top of Windows 8. Even if it adds more functions, it’s less clean that the solution I’m writing about today.
--> Please see the rest on Vladan's blog : http://www.vladan.fr/windows-7-explorer-for-windows-8/

Trilead has released version 4.1 of its backup solution for Virtual Machines VM Explorer. VM Explorer Backups can be stored on ESX, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD based storage platforms or directly to a SAN. With the release of version 4 Trilead expanded support from VMware to Hyper-V as well, a trend we see with more vendors which traditionally provided VMware-ended solutions.
VM explorer is offered in a Free edition, and a Pro edition which of course has more features as detailed here.
Version 4.1 provides the following new... [Lire la suite]

It is finally here! Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 is now available! This release includes all of the great features we previewed at Microsoft TechEd, VMworld and other global events. A number of new features that make up Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5, including:
Veeam Explorer for Exchange – Provides free e-discovery and item recovery for Microsoft Exchange
Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots - Fast, flexible VM recovery from SAN snapshots
Next-generation hypervisor support – VMware... [Lire la suite]

Veeam Explorer for Exchange presented by Rick Vanover.
I passed by the Veeam’s stand and Rick Vanover from Veeam was able to show me a quick demo of new cool feature (yes feature) that will be built into Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5.
The feature is called Veeam Explorer for Exchange, and it’s a feature that will be present also in the Free version of Veeam. It enables you to explore the MS exchange database through the Veeam Backup console. You can browse, search and selectively export items (emails, notes, contacts, etc.)... [Lire la suite]

Updated scripts are here http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=241
Virtual Server 2005 had a tool to mount and unmount VHD files. MS, so far, has not given this tool with hyper-V. However, they published WMI interfaces for doing the same.
So, here is a small script that enables Mount/Unmount options in the context menu when you right-click on a .VHD file. I am currently not handling any errors. This will fail if you try to mount / unmount a VHD in use. I am looking at WMI interfaces to understand how I can put some checks in to... [Lire la suite]